9:07PM EST: Morgan confirms to Lloyd Grove that Sheryl Crow is a “hot piece of ass.”

9:11PM EST: Deputy editor Greg Gittrich refer to shot cop as a “gift from God” [see update below] — we are in New York right? Surely, there are better “gifts” — like Sheryl Crow blueballing Lance Armstrong, for instance.

9:18PM EST:Tracy Connor. Worked for Post for a time. Confuses parents by toggling for papers.

9:52PM EST: Gittrich wants to tell “the whole story” to “do right by this cop.”

9:57PM EST: Morgan’s “earnest and sentimental because it has to be” cancer story. Feigned for the Bravo cameras? Your call.

UPDATE: Deputy editor Greg Gittrich says he was referring to a reporter’s concession to stay late to work on the story as a “gift from God.” We must’ve missed that in Bravo’s quick-cut style. Our apologies to Gittrich.

Allow us to indulge our Hollywood roots, just for a moment, as we admire this stunning showcase of the potential of commercial graphic design software. US Weekly, always the visionary of the tabloid world, has created this fake cover to showcase their photo-editing skills in imagining what celeb spawn will look like in 2026. They even hired “forensic imaging specialist Joe Mullins” to help create the professional-grade “If They Mated.”

But wait–that’s not all. Technology has also allowed for the time-lapse “morphing” of these children with well-groomed eyebrows into adult celebrities. We’re not sure how this will be useful to your design work today, but you could always show this to your parents as yet another example of “what you do.”

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http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/photoshop-gets-into-the-wrong-hands-terror-ensues_b273154Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:01:35 +0000Waiter Keeps Grubby Paws to Self, Editor IrkedBon Appetit’s online editor, Martha Simon, had a regrettable experience at a Los Angeles restaurant, and vents about it.
FBLA was right there with her until this part:

EXHIBIT B: Staff dotted the dining room in twos and threes, chatting, but when I later returned to my seat after a trip to the ladies’ room, nobody had bothered to refold my napkin.

If the waiter touches one napkin, he touches 50. And that means germs from 50 other mouths are on his fingers. Let’s not have a visual of that. No one touches the FBLA napkin.
And while speculation as to her dining location is running wild, it’s not a million miles from here.

A runner died during the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday in what appeared to be the first fatality in the event’s 29-year history. William Goggins, 43, of San Francisco, collapsed from apparent heart failure after he passed the 24-mile mark of the 26.2 mile race, authorities said.

Goggins, the longtime deputy editor of Wired magazine, had left the magazine earlier this year.

“Think of him as being the smartest, fastest, wittiest person you’ve ever met,” Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson told the paper. “He was a guy who made everything better. His voice was the voice of Wired for about a decade. The headlines were very much his voice. He was the longest serving employee for a long time.”

Living up to their promise to showcase “emerging design talent across an array of disciplines,” SFMOMA mounts a number of exhibitions like this one: “Xefirotarch/design series 4,” featuring the LA studio Xefirotarch.

These kids take blobitecture to new sci-fi heights, making for a fantasyland of forms that’s every bit as visually dramatic as “Alien,” but prettier. It all seems to tell a story: there are prickly skeletal shapes that look like otherworld carcasses, and shimmery animations that recall encounters with intelligent life. Their use of sleek materials, almost all in red, white and black, makes it even more surrealist and scary–they render red Ferrari paint into what feels like drops of blood (the piece is even called “Sangre,” and you can take a guess at what that means). It’s the perfect companion, actually, to the Matthew Barney show upstairs.

Ebay has some of Paris Hilton’s old let’s play dress-up stuff up for auction.
Somehow, and we’re not asking any questions, the seller got the left-overs of her storage locker, after the moving company let the lease expire and the contents go to the highest bidder, as TMZ first reported.
With a high bid of $21.50 and 6 more days to go, who can say what dizzying heights of financial carelessness might be reached? Could any of Paris’ DNA still be lingering on these items? Remember, friends don’t let friends bid drunk.

FishbowlNY programming note: We’ll be once again liveblogging Tabloid Wars tonight, airing 9-10PM EST on Bravo. Watch along with us. And send your live comments to fishbowlNY AT mediabistro.com and we’ll add ‘em in.

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http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/liveblogging-of-tabloid-wars-episode-2_b3831Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:01:02 +0000Instant Karma for ‘Chameleon’? Boy George To Pick Up TrashKeep an eye out in two weeks for former Culture Club frontman — er, let’s just say singer — Boy George, who will be out in the streets in late August for a week collecting trash from New York’s gutters as part of a made-for-late-night-monologue community service sentence he earned for falsely reporting a burgulary at his apartment. Armed with a shovel, broom, plastic bags and gloves, the singer could be assigned to pick garbage in Chinatown, Little Italy, Nolita or parts of the Lower East Side.

Drew Schutte has been named Vice President & Publishing Director of Wired Media, it was announced today by Charles Townsend, President and C.E.O. of Condé Nast Publications. In his new position, Schutte will oversee the sales and marketing for both Wired magazine and the Wired News Internet business, which includes seven internet channels. Condé Nast purchased Wired.com earlier this month reuniting, after eight years, the print and digital brands of Wired. In addition, Jay Lauf, was named Publisher of Wired magazine. He will continue to report to Mr. Schutte. These appointments are effective immediately . As a result of the recent acquisition, Paul van de Kamp will continue on as Director of National Sales for Wired News.

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http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/wired-promotes-vp-publisher_b3829Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:15:39 +0000“Voice of Wired,” Dead at 43Wired former deputy editor William Goggins collapsed during the San Francisco Marathon and died of apparent heart failure. He was 43.

The avid runner had just passed the 24-mile mark of what was to be his first 26.2 mile race, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.